Relearning Leadership

What will the post-pandemic office culture be like?Most tech-enabled office cultures pivoted to work-from-home during the pandemic. As the impacts of COVID wanes, employees are being called back to the office. Although there is no standard, leaders are searching for the right balance between in-person collaboration and at-home flexibility.Franco Chiaravalloti, Project Manager at Hitachi Rail Systems based in Brussels, and Von Rhea, Vice President of Software Engineering at Trimble based in Denver, join Pete to discuss aspects of post-pandemic office culture. Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership Podcast Website.

Why do leaders need to be aware of their illusion of control?Mette Bjerrekaer, Head of Transformation Office at Grundfos, shares how the illusion of control has impacted her as a leader and her journey in letting go of it.Bent Myllerup, Change Agent and Founder of Better Change, interviews Mette and joins Pete to share what we can all (re)learn about the illusion of control and letting go.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership Website.

Pete shares the second reason he paused the podcast in January.Pete experienced two lightning bolts life threw at him at the end of December - the end of his mother’s fight with cancer, and a catastrophic fire that displaced his family from their home.In Part II, Pete shares the journey he and Jana experienced through the evacuation and aftermath of the most destructive fire in Colorado’s history - The Marshall Fire that destroyed over 1,000 homes in their small towns of Louisville & Superior, CO. Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership Website

Pete shares one of the two reasons he paused the podcast in January.Pete experienced two lightning bolts life threw at him at the end of December - the end of his mother’s fight with cancer, and a catastrophic fire that displaced his family from their home.In Part I, Pete shares walking alongside his mother’s end-of-life journey fighting leukemia and pneumonia. Through his journey, he hopes leaders are better able to connect to the human side of all of their employees, family members and friends.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership Website to see pictures of Pete's mom, view the transcript, comment and more.

Predictability through improvisation - what project management can learn from jazz.Rob Tieman is the Director of the Project Management Office at the Virginia Department of Transportation. Gerald Leonard is a Strategic PMO Advisor for the government, Juilliard-trained musician, and author of Workplace Jazz.Together with Pete, they explore how insights from jazz have helped improve project predictability and workplace culture.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website for guest profiles, reference links, transcripts and more.

Why leaders need to celebrate continuity and stand up for status quo!Susan Schmitt Winchester is a Senior Vice President and Chief HR Officer for Applied Materials. Jake Jacobs is a principal change consultant and author of Leverage Change. Together with Pete they explore the paradox of change.In today’s fast-paced work world, leaders are rightly focused on change. But are leaders too  focused on change?  This episode explores the paradox of change where leaders need to raise their game in celebrating continuity and stand up for the status quo! Listen to relearn more.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership  website for author biographies, links to their books, a full transcript, comments and more.

Why leaders need to learn to let go, and why letting go is only half of the solution.Jon Christensen, founder and president of Kelsus helping startups build products, shares his leadership journey and stresses the importance he learned in letting go in order to grow as a leader.Brad Swanson, leadership and organizational coach, interviews Jon and discusses with Pete on what all leaders can learn why and how to let go in order to become better leaders, only to discover that letting go is only half of the solution!Visit (Re)Learning Leadership Website for author biographies, links, transcript, comments and more.

Why, and how, should leaders acknowledge identity in the workplace?Pete is joined by Wendy Ryan - a CEO, author and trauma survivor exploring identity in the workplace and the leader’s role not only to acknowledge it, but to actively lift others up.Wendy Ryan is the CEO of Kadabara, author of Learn Lead Lift, and advocate for expanding diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility at work. Together they explore identity in the workplace, how culture and trauma impacts identity, and the role leaders play in creating space for employees to bring their whole selves to the workplace.Visit the (Re)Learning Leadership website for more on Wendy Ryan, Kadabra, her book Learn Lead Lift, the transcript and more 

What does it take to succeed as a leader?Nick Berendt shares his journey from drug dealer serving time to HVAC business owner reaching $2M revenue. His mentor, and former circus performer, Shawn Thomas shares how leaders like Nick are only limited by their own thinking and environment, and by hacking into them can place us on a new growth trajectory.Through combining Nick and Shawn's story we can learn what it takes to succeed as a leader.Learn more about Nick, Shawn, and the Accelerators Organization on our website.

Two-thirds of leaders receive little to no education, coaching or mentoring. We can do something about this. Pete Behrens welcomes us back to season 2 with a personal story of his own accidental leadership journey as a student, employee and founder. Through his story he hopes to connect, inspire, and challenge us all to become a better leader, a more adaptive leader, a more diverse leader, and a more humane leader.Visit (Re)Learning Leadership to explore this episode further.