For our regular listeners today’s podcast will be a little different, my regular co-host Ken is working south of the border in Portland, Oregon and as Jordan was my daughter’s hockey coach last season, Hannah will be joins us in the second half of the podcast to ask Jordan some hockey specific questions from her and her former teammates. Meanwhile I’ll be discussing the principles of effective leadership, why being to explain your ‘why’ is important and why Jordan’s aim is to create better humans, not simply better hockey players

In this episode Ken interviews Russell about the COACH model that is featured in their 5 Star Amazon book ‘I Want To F***ing Talk To You - The Art Of Navigating Difficult Workplace Conversations’. The boys talk about taking a coach approach to leadership, the importance of asking great questions and listening to the answers, before choosing a selection of their favourite questions from the f***ing COACH model. Tune in and get some f***ing great ideas to help you coach your team at work.

Ken and Russell talk to Len about his global consultancy work, how he helps leaders to lead their organization through change programs and human systems design, his view that 'The future is unavoidably hybrid', his thoughts on the 'Future of management' and also touch on Len's love of the TV show 'Peaky Blinders' and his Rum tasting hobby.

Ooops!! we've just cheekily added the f*** word to one of Heather's life mottos! In this episode the boys chat with Heather Martin from the Chiu School of Business at Bow Valley College about the importance of suitably preparing the next generation of Canadian employees and the need to bring a diverse group of voices to the forefront in business. 

If you run a business, you've got problems: people problems, growth problems, profit problems. If your problems have gone from 'a bit annoying' to 'mildly infuriating' to 'downright painful' and you feel like you're losing your grip on the business or simply not getting what you want from it, the Chris is the man to speak to.

The guys speak with psychologist and entrepreneur Dr Laura Hambley Lovett about her thoughts on authentic leadership, organizational psychology and the culture of remote working and virtual teams. 

In this episode the boys discuss the problems with a 'leader as hero' mindset and how this can lead to an office full of peanut throwing monkeys, you'll have to listen to find out what the f*** they are talking about.

Dean Jetten started his career as a heavy duty mechanic. Now he leads a Volker Stevin highways team that maintains 18,500 km of highway, mows the equivalent 38,376 football fields and uses 700,000 litres of reflective paint, all in an effort to keep drivers safe. Dean, a man whose employees drive 5 million km a year on scheduled road patrols, tells us how he believes that if you want to go far you “need to go together”. 

Tyler has a love of marketing and co-founded clearmotive marketing in 2007. With offices in Calgary and Toronto Tyler’s goal was to build a marketing-first agency focused on better connecting clients to their customers. In a wide ranging conversation the boys talk to Tyler about his experiences of pivoting his business during COVID, the changing world of work, his experiences with the RCAF Snowbirds display team and he and Ken’s canoeing escapade.

Ken explains that a SHIFT Disturber is not the same as a sh__ disturber. He describes the SHIFT card deck and how to create a High-Performance Culture in 9 Not-So-Simple-But-Totally-Necessary Steps ... so that you too can become a SHIFT Disturber. Russell demonstrates how to use the deck to distill the core values of you or your team.