Podcasts by Goodness Pays Leadership

Winning with a Goodness Culture: Finding Joy with Amanda Brinkman from 2023-03-27T15:44:07

Welcome back to the Goodness Pays Leadership Podcast! Listen in as Paul Batz and Kevin Sensenig debrief the March Good Leadership Breakfast featuring Amanda Brinkman, CEO of Sunshine Studios and...

Episode 16: Good Leadership Is a Team Sport from 2022-10-04T12:45

Good Leadership recently launched its newest book: Good Leadership Is a Team Sport. Paul and Kevin talk about the early drafts of the book and how it came to the final product it is today. To pu...

Terry Rasmussen – President and CEO of Thrivent: One Big Goal from 2021-10-26T09:47:46

Hear the conversation as Terry Rasmussen, President and CEO of Thrivent, and Paul Batz discuss her top three success habits including creating “One Big Goal” for your whole organization, and so ...

Thriving Together with Duchesne Drew from 2021-09-20T17:35:14

Listen in as Duchesne Drew, President of Minnesota Public Radio, and Paul Batz discuss the concept of “thriving together” and learn how Duchesne’s top three success habits are changing the indus...

Positive Teamwork with Megan Remark from 2021-06-01T14:27:05

Listen in as Paul Batz and Megan Remark, President and CEO of Regions Hospital discuss the pandemic, racial unrest in, and how to maintain a positive team through it all.

Ray Kowalik - CEO of Burns&McDonnell: How Accountability Improves with the feeling of Ownership from 2021-04-26T18:21:33

Paul Batz and Ray Kowalik discuss accountability and how that affects the culture at Burns & McDonnell. As an employee-owned company, Burns & McDonnell is focu...

Bruce DeWitt – CEO of Testek: Understanding Operational Assurance from 2021-03-22T17:44:15

Paul Batz and Bruce DeWitt discuss operational assurance, creating a leadership system, Bruce’s sheep farm and so much more. Learn how Bruce took his company from the ...

Carving a better path forward with Kevin Warren from 2020-08-25T09:37:42

Paul Batz and Kevin Warren, Commissioner of the Big Ten Conference discuss how to carve a better path forward for the young leaders in America.

Using Resiliency to Find Purpose: John Thomas from 2020-03-24T10:22:35

John Thomas, VP of Basketball Development, Minnesota Timberwolves & Lynx, spoke at the first-ever online Good Leadership Breakfast. Immediately following, Paul Batz and John Thomas answered ...

The Secret is Discovering Why You Exist: Charles Antis from 2020-02-24T10:35:44

The Secret is Discovering Why You Exist: Charles Antis

The Business of Creating Hope: Richard Davis from 2019-11-18T12:52

Richard Davis shares his journey from a bank teller to CEO of U.S. Bank, and how that prepared him for the business of creating hope. Today he is CEO of Make-A-Wish America, the world’s larges...

When Fairness and Injustice Drives Good Leadership: Nicole LaVoi from 2019-10-21T10:09:13

Nicole LaVoi shared her personal story of athletic triumphs in the face of a series of basic sexist and unjust experiences. Today she is one of the world’s foremost authorities on the importance...

How Big Data and Childhood are Improving Climate Change: Julie Kae from 2019-09-23T07:48

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How Goodness Pays for 20-Something Leaders: Olivia Peterson, with Johan Gjenvick from 2019-08-23T17:25

University of Minnesota student Olivia Peterson voices her enthusiasm for learning the foundation for How Goodness Pays. It’s a rare look into how an aspiring leader can change and grow with t...

How Goodness Pays Proof Points: Gene Sieve from 2019-08-21T17:24

Gene Sieve, a vice president and regional manager at one of the world’s most successful employee-owned companies, Burns & McDonnell, shares proof points around how he has seen goodness pay...

Leveling the Playing Field for Young Leaders: Alvin Abraham from 2019-08-19T08:17:45

Alvin Abraham, Dean of the Daugherty Family College of the University of St. Thomas, shares the joys tribulations of being an entrepreneur whose mission is to “level the playing field” for under...

Lead With People First, and Results Will Follow from 2019-05-13T13:00:14

Phil McKoy, CIO of United Healthcare, shares what goodness means to him and how growing up in rural Jamaica and the influences of his father and grandfather helped to shape his leadership today....

Goodness and Mastering the Soft Stuff from 2019-04-15T10:12:26

Monte Nuckols, VP of IT at Adient, a global leader in automotive seating, shares a personal story about his journey through a stressful project and how goodness and focusing on the Seven Fs chan...

Goodness Starts With Us as Leaders from 2019-03-17T17:28:27

CEO of Regions Hospital, Megan Remark, has learned that healthcare is personal and she leads her teams and organizations with that premise. In this episode, Megan shares her journey and insights...

Do You Know Who You Are? from 2019-02-18T11:46:55

In this episode, you'll hear Stedman Graham as the featured speaker at the February 2019 Good Leadership Breakfast talk about finding your own identity so that you can be a good leader.

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Are you leading as your authentic self? from 2018-11-18T19:15:25

In this episode, you'll hear the last speaker of our Fall Good Leadership Breakfast series, Greg Cunningham Vice President of Global Inclusion and Diversity at U. S. Bank.  Greg shares great ins...

Finding Goodness in Every Step of Your Journey from 2018-10-23T08:35:05

In this episode, you'll hear Joseph Otting, Comptroller of the Currency, share his messages on how to find goodness in every path of your journey.  Paul Batz and Kelsey Meyer Schalkle host the e...

Goodness and Self-Doubt from 2018-09-23T19:24:13

In this episode, Pahoua Yang Hoffman shares her unbelievable journey as a young child and how she made her inner self-doubt voice, her friend.  You’ll hear Paul Batz and Kelsey Meyer Schalkle di...

Why We Wrote it from 2018-08-28T08:29:50

The "Why" from Paul Batz and Paul Hillen: Why did we write the book, How Goodness Pays?  Our personal perspectives, and our professional motivations.

An Unexpected Journey from 2018-08-20T00:00

In this episode, Lindsey Riley shares her incredible story of finding goodness in a not-so good situation. You'll hear Paul Batz and Kelsey Meyer Schalkle dive deeper into her story about findin...

How to Write a Book from 2018-07-17T18:06

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How Goodness Pays: The How of Research from 2018-06-18T18:05

The "How" from Paul Batz and Paul Hillen: How did we write the book, How Goodness Pays?

Doing Well By Doing Good: Amanda Brinkman from 2018-05-21T13:55:20

In this episode, Amanda Brinkman shares how Small Business Revolution has transformed how she thinks about marketing and how goodness really does pay in business. You’ll hear Paul Batz and Kelse...

How to Let Go, So You Can Fight For Something You Love from 2018-04-20T17:44:16

In this episode, Erik Gabrielson and Moira Petit share their personal leadership journey, a story of love, persistence and fiercely independent parenting. You’ll hear Paul Batz and Kelsey Meyer ...

Exercise New Leadership Muscles: Paul Hillen from 2018-03-17T17:07

This episode features Paul Hillen, a dear friend of Good Leadership sharing his story of changing not only his leadership behaviors, but philosophies. Kelsey Meyer Schalkle and Chloe Radcliffe d...

Overcoming the Dark Noise: Jurriaan Kamp from 2018-02-22T22:17

In a world filled with negative news stories coming at us 24/7, work is oftentimes our escape from the "Dark Noise." Jurriaan Kamp, the founder of the Intelligent Optimist, offers wisdom about t...

The Necessity of Gratitude: Kevin Warren from 2018-02-22T17:36

This episode features a harrowing story of injury, self-reflection, and recovery that ultimately propelled Kevin Warren to his current position as the COO of the Minnesota Vikings.  Paul Batz an...

The Power of Purpose: Richard Leider from 2018-02-22T17:33

Have you found your purpose in life?  Paul Batz and Kelsey Meyer-Schalkle reflect on Good Leadership Breakfast speaker Richard Leider's guidance about the power of purpose - particularly his sug...

A Currency of Goodness: Liwanag Ojala from 2018-02-22T17:31

Liwanag Ojala, CEO of CaringBridge, calls for changing how we view currency: how can you be the richest you've ever been without measuring in dollars?  Paul Batz and Chloe Radcliffe discuss the ...

How does Goodness Pay for you? from 2018-02-22T17:08

The Good Leadership Enterprises motto is "Goodness Pays." The Goodness Pays Leadership Podcast discusses what goodness means to individual leaders like you, where you see or feel goodness, and w...