Transformational Leadership
The Transformational Leadership podcast is for executives and leaders to share their war stories and "wins" in developing and managing high performing teams. Focused on driving high impact and performance through people. Each episode features CHROs, CEOs, and operational leaders sharing tested frameworks and real outcomes tied to transformation, leadership, culture, and execution. The show delivers practical tools for decision-makers building great teams for great organizations!
Episodes
What does it take to lead effectively when the stakes are high? This conversation explores leadership lessons shaped by experiences ranging from SWAT team training and war-zone leadership in Iraq to organizational culture, communication, and change management.
The discussion examines how leaders build high-performing teams, communicate across cultural and language barriers, align pe...
What happens when you transform access to opportunity into a strategy for scalable impact?
Jeff Harnois speaks with Jodi Brockington, founder and CEO of Nyara Consulting, founder of the FOJ Network, and co-founder of Venture Philanthropy Blueprint.
Jodi shares how she transformed a traditional career fair into a digital career success series, givi...
What does it take to transform your leadership identity, perform under pressure, and build a truly aligned team?
Jeff Harnois speaks with Gerry Watkins, founder and owner of The Leader’s Edge, about identity, pressure-proofing, leadership, culture, and team alignment.
Gerry explains how leaders can identify the qualities they need to develop for their next level, use their ex...
How can leaders build trust, simplify compensation, navigate HR transformation, and prepare their organizations for AI?
Jeff Harnois speaks with Eric Rodriguez, Deputy Chief Human Resources Officer at Dallas College, about the changing world of leadership, compensation, technology, and the employee experience. Eric shares practical insights on building trust through simple and transparent compensation programs, leading through orga...
What does it really take to transition from technical expert to executive leader?
Christopher Pogue shares the lessons he learned serving in the U.S. Army, leading cybersecurity organizations, teaching future business leaders, and advising executives.
This episode explores:
• Military leadership principles in business
• Becoming an effective people leader
• Executive communication
• Creating organizational value
• Coa...
Ray Makela, Managing Director of Talent Development at SBI Growth and author of High Impact Sales Manager, joins Jeff Harnois to discuss leadership transformation, sales coaching, scaling high-performance teams, and the future impact of AI on management.
Discover practical frameworks for coaching, delegation, sales leadership, performance management, and leveraging AI to create more strategic and effective organizations.
In this episode of Transformational Leadership, Shirell Rivers shares lessons learned from leading major healthcare transformations, working across 24 different cultures, and helping organizations drive meaningful change.
From Saudi Arabia to athenahealth, Shirell reveals how trust, relationships, strategic thinking, and customer focus create successful transformation outcomes.
Topics include:
- Leadership Development • Organi...
Dr. Regis Chasse shares how Capgemini tackled global complexity during a massive period of growth and acquisitions.
In this episode, he explains how inconsistent methodologies, tools, and delivery standards created operational friction across global teams — and how a CEO-led transformation unified the organization.
Topics include:
- Global transformation strategy
- Or...
What’s the real difference between internal and external transformation?
In this episode of the Transformational Leadership Podcast, Jeff Harnois sits down with Bryan Chaney, founder of People Brand Collective, to unpack how organizations navigate change, culture, leadership, and employee engagement.
Bryan shares why transformation succeeds or fails based on one critical factor: understanding people. From organizational cultu...
AI is everywhere but most organizations are not using it effectively
In this episode we explore why AI projects fail how poor implementation impacts employees and customers and what leaders should focus on instead
From training AI correctly to leveraging existing talent this conversation gives practical insights for leaders navigating AI transformation
#AI #Leadership #BusinessStrategy #FutureOfWork #HR
Why do most transformation efforts fail even when the strategy looks right?
This episode breaks down the real reason: execution under imperfect conditions.
John Murphy shares his experience leading growth and transformation at JLL Technologies and Akamai, where he built demand generation from scratch, scaled pipeline to $20M, and helped redefine go-to-market strategy in complex environments.
The conversation focuses on the gap betw...
This episode explores what it truly takes to build, scale, and exit a global brand.
Stephen Myers, founder of Dynamic Beverage Consultants, shares his journey from launching Illegal Mezcal across international markets to helping brands like Mr. Black successfully enter the U.S. and achieve acquisition.
The conversation focuses on practical leadership, operational challenges, and the realities of scaling in complex environments.
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In this episode of Transformational Leadership, Jeff Harnois speaks with Kimberly Love, VP of Human Resources at Legacy Community Health.
Kimberly shares how her organization addressed high turnover and employee dissatisfaction by redesigning their PTO system and investing in leadership development.
The conversation explores how HR leaders can drive both business performance and patient outcomes by focusing on engagement, reten...
Jeff Harnois speaks with Valerie Workman about leadership courage, confidence, and how organizations must evolve during periods of transformation.
The conversation explores imposter syndrome, women in leadership, and how AI will reshape HR and workforce development.
Marissa Levin shares her journey of building and exiting multiple companies and the identity transformation that followed.
This episode explores conscious leadership, psychological safety, trust, Enneagram, and the cultural implications of AI.
A practical conversation for leaders serious about transformation.
What separates capable leaders from transformational leaders is not confidence. It is audacity.
This episode explores how leadership action drives organizational transformation and measurable business results. You will hear real executive case studies, leadership interventions that improved retention, and communication strategies that changed team performance.
Learn how executive courage influences succession planning, decision-mak...
Welcome to the Transformational Leadership Podcast, where senior leaders share real-world experiences building high-performance organizations in complex, high-pressure environments.
In this episode, host Jeff Harnois is joined by Richard Finger, Vice President of Human Resources at Broadmead Inc. Richard brings deep experience from leading large-scale HR transformations, including his work at Bristol-Myers Squibb, where he played...
How do you transform HR in a 9,000-employee, multi-billion dollar healthcare organization while reducing turnover by 11% and increasing engagement by 24%? Billy Parsons, a transformational CHRO with 65+ M&A integrations under his belt, shares the playbook.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction to Billy Parsons
02:24 - The Challenge: 9,000 Employees, 725 Locations
03:26 - Current State: Built for Call Centers, Not Clinical Enterp...
In this episode of Transformational Leadership, host Jeff Haar Noyes is joined by Jennifer Kozel, Founder and CEO of The Guevarra Group, for a powerful conversation on leadership, blind spots, and human-centered transformation.
Jennifer shares her unconventional yet deeply impactful approach to executive development — including the use of equine-assisted learning to surface leadership blind spots in ways traditional workshop...
In this episode of Transformational Leadership, host Jeff Harnois sits down with Theresa Hilsen, Director of Leadership Enablement & Communications at Sony Interactive Entertainment — the company behind PlayStation.
Theresa has spent her career inside highly matrixed, technical organizations, acting as a trusted partner to senior executives through transformation, culture shifts, leadership development, and organizationa...
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