

Peak Performance Leadership
Scott McCarthy, 20 year serving Military Commander
As the world continues to accelerate in complexity and ambiguity, leaders cannot afford to settle for mediocrity. You need to be at your best, your team does, as well as your organization. Thus, you need to be peak performers. The Peak Performance Leadership Podcast is here for you to achieve just that.
This weekly podcast will help you find new ways to become the best leader than you can be. I take the lessons learned from my 20+ years of leadership experience coupled with the world's best guests in all areas of leadership to give you a leading edge.
This show focuses on the three domains of leadership:
Leading Yourself - learn how to perform at your peak, to ensure that you have the mindset of a leader, set and crush your goals.Leading Your Team - learn how to inspire and motivate your team. Build a cohesive team through trust and mutual goals.Leading Your organization - efficiency and effectiveness are what drives bottom line. You as the leader must harness these aspects along with culture and so much more!
In the end you'll become a LEADER and not "BOSS". Are you ready for more? Access all of our resources at: https://leaddontboss.com
This weekly podcast will help you find new ways to become the best leader than you can be. I take the lessons learned from my 20+ years of leadership experience coupled with the world's best guests in all areas of leadership to give you a leading edge.
This show focuses on the three domains of leadership:
Leading Yourself - learn how to perform at your peak, to ensure that you have the mindset of a leader, set and crush your goals.Leading Your Team - learn how to inspire and motivate your team. Build a cohesive team through trust and mutual goals.Leading Your organization - efficiency and effectiveness are what drives bottom line. You as the leader must harness these aspects along with culture and so much more!
In the end you'll become a LEADER and not "BOSS". Are you ready for more? Access all of our resources at: https://leaddontboss.com
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Aug 9, 2021 • 6min
What's Your Leadership Mindset?
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Aug 4, 2021 • 25min
Provide and Receive the Feedback | Episode 179
Feedback is a crucial took to ensure that your team and organization are on the right course. Like a plan flying from Toronto to London, UK, regular feedback is required to keep everyone on the right path. Yet so many leaders and organizations fail to either provide this crucial information or to do it in a manner which is beneficial. It's time to fix that!
Topics
During this episode I discuss the following topics:
How feedback helps to achieve peak performanceThe different types of feedbackWhat feedback should beWhat to avoid when giving feedbackA framework when giving or accepting feedback
For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:
https://movingforwardleadership.com/179

Jul 28, 2021 • 42min
Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling | Mandy Cavanaugh | Episode 178
In many areas around the world, women still struggle to reach the same level as their male counterparts. Even in the western world, we just celebrated the election of the first female Vice President of the United States. Yet there is an ever increasing number of women in the workplace. It’s time for us as leaders to recognize this inequity and help women to reach the levels which they deserve.
Mandy Cavanaugh’s passion for leadership, entrepreneurship, and helping people thrive has fueled her roles as CEO, consultant, and facilitator. Her businesses have spanned global lodging logistics, land development, manufacturing, corporate leadership seminars, and turnaround consulting.
Mandy succeeds in highly competitive environments by connecting each of her team members to their best future self. She holds various coaching certifications and has conducted seminars on high performance, authentic success, conscious language, imagination activation, conflict resolution, corporate soul retrieval, CEO-ship for start-ups, sales, team building, and wealth wisdom for women.
Topics
During this interview Mandy and I discuss the following topics:
Her thoughts on the first female US vice president being electedThe importance of balancing masculine and feminine energy How enable feminine perspective to come out from our peopleThe inspiration behind her book Leadership struggles that female leaders faceHow female leaders can use their famine energy and get taken seriously
For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:
https://movingforwardleadership.com/178

Jul 26, 2021 • 5min
The Arrogance of Leadership | MONDAY LEADERSHIP MINUTE
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Jul 21, 2021 • 44min
CULTURE HACKS | COLIN ELLIS | EPISODE 177
Culture is the biggest topic in the world right now - and the number one determinant of organizational success - yet it’s often put in the ‘too hard to change’ basket. For too long leaders have applied lip service responses or quick-fix solutions to culture change that don't actually affect behaviour change or else provide any improvements to people’s working lives. This needs to change.
Workplace culture specialist and best-selling author Colin D Ellis provides a practical culture toolkit of 26 tried and tested ideas that you can put into practice right now, regardless of where people are based. It’s through these simple and actionable ideas that over time can transform the way that work gets done. From emails to book clubs and meetings to podcasts, Ellis shows readers how to take regular steps to build a fantastic work culture that everyone wants to be a part of.
Changing your culture doesn’t need to be hard, and Culture Hacks empowers you with the actions needed to transform your working day so that you’re fit for the future of work.
Author Colin D Ellis is an award-winning international speaker, best-selling author and renowned culture change expert who works with organizations around the world to help them transform the way they get things done. He draws on more than 30 years of public and private sector leadership experience in the UK, New Zealand and Australia.
Topics
During this interview Colin and I discuss the following topics:
How you as a leader can “hack” your cultureHow meetings drain your cultureFinding a way to trust in your team and cultureWhy failing will tighten your organization not divide itHow hobbies can bring your team togetherWhy starting a podcast will improve your cultureHow sports can build your culture
For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:
https://movingforwardleadership.com/177

Jul 19, 2021 • 4min
You Can Make A Difference | MONDAY LEADERSHIP MINUTE
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Jul 14, 2021 • 59min
Be a Trusted Leader who Drives Results | David Horsager
Trust isn’t something we typically think of as having an economic value. But scratch the surface behind the numbers appearing on any company’s balance sheet and trust — or a lack of it — appears everywhere. When trust increases, so do output, morale, retention, innovation and loyalty. Conversely, a lack of trust is a company’s single biggest expense. At the core, problems are never about leadership, communication, sales, marketing or even finances. Every issue falls under one or more of the “8 Pillars of Trust.” These pillars correspond to eight specific traits that the most trusted leaders, brands and organizations have in common. The good news is that trust can be learned, practiced and profitable — with astonishing results.
David Horsager, MA, CSP, CPAE, is the CEO of Trust Edge Leadership Institute, Trust Expert in Residence at High Point University, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Trust Edge. David has advised leaders and delivered life-changing presentations on six continents, with audiences ranging from FedEx, Toyota, MIT and global governments to the New York Yankees and the Department of Homeland Security.
Topics
During this interview David and I discuss the following topics:
How trust will help achieve peak performanceHow he developed the 8 pillars of trustCompassion, Character, (incentivize lack of character), competency, How to “trust” your toxic supervisorHow to become trustworthy if you believe you are not
For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:
https://movingforwardleadership.com/176

Jul 7, 2021 • 32min
LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM 75 HARD | Episode 175
Leadership and leaders can stagnate just like companies. From time to time we leaders must challenge ourselves in new ways to ensure that we are still growing as a leader and person. From 1 February 2021 and for 75 days straight I did just that. I and a group of 15 men took on Andy Frisella's "75 Hard Challenge." For a total of 75 days straight we had to:
Drink no alcoholcomplete 2 x 45 minute workoutsFollow a meal plan with no cheatingDrink a US Gallon of waterRead 10 pages of a self-improvement bookTake a progress picture
To say that this was a challenge would be an understatement, after all it was not "75 EASY" but 75 Hard. In this episode I go through the lessons I learned through this journey.
Topics
During this episode I discuss the following topics:
What 75 Hard isWhy having a plan is crucialImpacts of decisions and actionsSupport a team is crucialManaging your own expectationsLearning to fail gracefully
For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:
https://movingforwardleadership.com/175

Jul 5, 2021 • 5min
Ditch the Aspirational Goals Now! | MONDAY LEADERSHIP MINUTE
Welcome to the Monday Leadership Minute.
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Jun 30, 2021 • 49min
Lessons from Leaders in Lockdown | Atholl Duncan | Episode 174
A year ago, business leaders around the world began grappling with the pandemic and its massive impact on the workplace, the economy, and people’s lives. Largely isolated and working from home, top executives were not only forced to quickly figure out how to adapt to keep their company running. They also had time to re-examine their standard practices and beliefs about doing business and leading others. Thanks to COVID-19, many leaders have embraced change, gained self-awareness, and become better leaders. What these leaders have learned about flexibility, resilience, empathy, collaboration, tackling inequity, and maximizing everyone’s potential can help other leaders shift and prepare—in matters of strategy, operations, and mindset—for the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Atholl Duncan is Chair of Black Isle Group, leadership performance development specialists, and an international executive coach. Certified by INSEAD, he also studied leadership at Harvard and Cranfield. A former journalist and television producer, he worked for BBC News for more than 20 years. Atholl is the Chairman of Black Isle Group. He was a senior executive with the BBC for many years; an Executive Director of ICAS; and a corporate affairs director for one of the UK’s largest utility companies. Atholl is currently Chair of the Scottish Salmon Producers’ Organisation; Chair of UK Coaching; and a board member and former Chair of the British Horseracing Authority. He is an Insead Executive Coach with a leadership education from Harvard and Cranfield.
Topics
During this interview Atholl and I discuss the following topics:
Failures that businesses made during the beginning of lockdownHow leaders got their businesses out of “the hole”7 different themes from their researchHow senior leaders were able to remain resilient throughout the crisisHow businesses have strengthened their teams throughout the crisis
For the complete show notes be sure to check out our website:
https://movingforwardleadership.com/174


