The Leadership Window

As leaders develop, we grow through stages of how we view the world. These stages (of what we call vertical development) represent a different continuum than the growth in skill building, education, and career advancement (horizontal growth) that we most often consider when thinking about our adult development. Patrick recently participated in a certification training on the assessment tool used to measure our vertical development. The training, conducted by today's guests, Bill Pullen and Dr. Aman Gohal of Global Leadership Associates, inspired Patrick to invite the instructors to the show, and here they are!

To follow up on the previous episode on mental strength in leadership, Patrick sits down with Russell Harvey, The Resilience Coach. Russell coaches leaders and teams in building resilience as a proactive pursuit.

Are you a mentally strong leader? What does that mean? Patrick asks the expert, Scott Mautz, author of The Mentally Strong Leader: Build the Habits to Productively Regulate Your Emotions, Thoughts, and Behaviors.

Sports can teach us a lot about life, and former professional basketball player Angela Lewis tells that story with inspiration. Patrick interviews Angela on her six keys to success, as highlighted in her book, The Game Changing Assist: Six Simple Ways to Choose Success.

This week, Patrick shares a framework for 4 leadership continuums: From performer to leader. From invitation to expectation. From agreement to commitment From business to value creation.

A recent wave of Federal policy announcements, executive orders, and agency communications has the nonprofit sector in the U.S. and abroad scurrying for answers and contingencies. Political ideologies aside, nonprofits must navigate these waters with artful leadership and clarity in decision-making. This week, Patrick chats with colleague Forrest Alton of 1000 Feathers about what nonprofits can proactively do to mitigate loss and risk and to manage losses if and when they occur.

From individual disagreement to global armed engagement, conflict can be dark and messy or productive and generative. Patrick chats with Dr. Doris Wesley about Dr. Wesley's research in the area of conflict and "peacebuilding."

One of the most common challenges in organizations is the effective and efficient execution of projects, particularly when multiple, complex projects are in demand simultaneously. In this episode, Patrick talks with Cody Holm and Paul Geier, certified project managers and leaders at PMAlliance.

Ron Harvey, COO at Global Core Strategies and Consulting, returns to the studio to reflect on 2024 and aspire for 2025 with Patrick.

The Leader's Perspective's newest team member, Monroe Free, chats with Patrick about translating a 40-year career of nonprofit service into a leadership coaching venture to help other social sector leaders. Read about Monroe HERE.

As Thanksgiving 2024 approaches, Patrick pauses for some gratitude.

How do you turn a challenge into an asset? Patrick's guests this week have mastered it. Dr. Kumar Ramlall and Amit Chintan Ramlall are human advisors helping organizational leaders transition out of their businesses. They also help leaders turn their baggage into fuel.  Amit was born with Autism Spectrum Disorder. His unique challenges power his unique abilities. Amit insists that he is not successful despite his challenges, but expressly BECAUSE of them. Using a unique communication method, Amit and his father (Dr. Kumar Ramlall) chat with Patrick about the work they do helping leaders through challenging transitions.

Patrick takes The Leadership Window on the road to the Frances P. Bunnelle Foundation and chats with Executive Director Geales Sands and Senior Director Ashley Nelson about the work of their Pawley's Island, SC foundation, devoted to enhancing the quality of life for the people of Georgetown County. The foundation has assets of $45 million and invests over $2 million annually through grants and initiatives. Geales and Ashley discuss the leadership challenges of leading a philanthropic organization and the importance of honoring the legacy and intentions of its founder.

What leadership qualities are required to take a small nonprofit to a regional force for good? Patrick sits down with Travis Staton, former President and CEO of United Way of Southwest Virginia, and current President and CEO of EO, in Abingdon, VA. Travis has led the transformational growth of an organization that is a regional childhood education and workforce development hub in rural southwest Virginia.

As a performer in the workplace, your job is to write successful grants, manage finances effectively, supervise a manufacturing line, sell merchandise, run programs, etc. However, as a LEADER, you have one main job. In this episode, Patrick breaks down the 3 things needed in an environment that the leader either creates -- or doesn't.

Patrick discusses new leader integration with ICF Certified Coach and executive integration expert Eileen Rieder. From a new employee orientation to a longer on-ramp (onboarding process) and ultimately to full integration, where is your company on the continuum?

Whether it’s staying in business during a pandemic, locking down government secrets through a cyberattack, or protecting your family through financial crisis, fire season, earthquake, power outage, or mass shooting, what determines whether an unexpected event becomes a disaster is you. Patrick Hardy’s C3 Method is so clear, practical, and empowering that audiences from Fortune 500s to families are deploying this framework in the face of disruption to become stronger and more resilient.

Patrick and Charles enjoy a hometown baseball game and talk leadership and 21 years of excellence from The Weathers Group.

Ron Harvey returns to the show to chat with Patrick about 5 coaching challenges. Ron is COO of Global Core Strategies and Consulting. He is a member of The Leader's Perspective Advisory Board. Patrick and Ron discuss commitment to action, dedication to learning, personal accountability, challenging terms, and more.

In this solo episode, Patrick discusses what it means to slow down to go fast. As they say in the Navy, slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. How do we create speed in our organizations without everyone falling off?

Patrick takes the show on the road and sits down in Miami with an extraordinary nonprofit leader, Ashley Giritli. Ashley, a Miami native, is the Executive Director of Caring For Miami. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida. Throughout her career, she has developed expertise in strategic planning, program development, grant-maker research, grant strategy, and grant proposal writing, with a focus on health and human services. Ashley's tenure as a nonprofit CEO is young at 2 years. However, her leadership has quickly taken her organization to new heights, with much more on the horizon. For...

This week, Patrick pauses for a solo episode to share a framework for increasing personal accountability. Whether resolving conflict or simply improving the flow of communication in your workplace, the 60% Rule is a tool Patrick teaches in his coaching practice.

Patrick chats with Nick Jonsson, author of Executive Loneliness: The 5 Pathways for Overcoming Isolation, Stress, Anxiety, and Depression in the Modern Business World. Nick shares his personal story from struggle to restoration and the pathways that he walked to recovery.

In this insightful episode, Patrick delves into a profound conversation with Dr. Marie-Hélène Pelletier, a luminary in the realms of resilience and workplace mental health. Dr. Pelletier, the esteemed author of “The Resilience Plan: A Strategic Approach to Optimizing Work Performance and Mental Health,” brings her vast expertise and engaging demeanor to the table, discussing strategies that are indispensable for fostering a healthy, motivated, and productive work environment.

Resilience, as Dr. Pelletier articulates, is not merely a buzzword but a critical framework that requires intentional cultivation within our organizations. It’s about developing a strategic plan tha...

Anthony A. Dicks, Jr. is a Senior Leadership Consultant with 180 Management Group. Anthony is a leader’s leader. His passion for leadership development is seen through his work with emerging nonprofit leaders. He has spent over two decades preparing people with diverse responsibilities to reach their optimal leadership potential.

In this episode, Patrick and Anthony discuss the challenges executive leaders face, particularly as it relates to self-care and establishing a community of support among other executive leaders.

You can find Anthony’s book, Holy Hardship: How Jesus Turns Your Adversity into an Advantage on Amazon.

Patrick’s repeat guest, Ron Harvey, returns to chat openly about some of the leadership challenges executives are facing today. Ron is COO of Global Core Strategies and Consulting, and a member of The Leader’s Perspective Advisory Board. Ron is an ICF and John Maxwell Coach, author, sought-after keynote speaker, and thought leader on all things leadership.

Jason Kruger joins Patrick to discuss the bigger-picture aspects of financial leadership, particularly in the nonprofit sector.

Jason is the founder and president of Signature Analytics, a consulting firm dedicated to helping organizations manage and use their financial data effectively.

Visit SignatureAnalytics.com to learn more.

Patrick chats with two seasoned nonprofit consultants, Ginny Waller and Colleen Bozard, designers and instructors of “To Be Honest”, on online onboarding training for new nonprofit CEOs/Executive Directors. In this episode, the conversation centers on what new nonprofit CEOs need to know when taking the helm of a nonprofit for the first time.

Ginny Waller is the president of Waller Consulting. She is the former Executive Director of the largest, free-standing sexual assault services agency in South Carolina. She is also a skilled facilitator (virtual and in-person) and lawyer (licensed in South Carolina) with more than seven...

It’s our favorite time of year at The Leader’s Perspective — the beginning!

In this episode, Patrick shares 5 takeaways from 2023, and 5 intentions for 2024.

Paul ter Wal is an employee engagement expert, speaker, author, and consultant from The Netherlands.

In this episode, Patrick sits down with Paul and discusses the difference between employee engagement and job satisfaction, and where happiness fits into the equation. 

Additional topics in this episode include organizational culture, differences in workplace cultures around the world, servant leadership, and more.

Paul strongly focuses on core values — ensuring the employees’ values align with the organization’s. 

For more information, visit www.paulterwal.com

Your system is set up perfectly to get the results you are currently getting! If you want things to change, you have to change the system. Systems change expert and author David Peter Stroh visits wth Patrick to discuss what systems change actually means, and how to go about addressing social issues at a systemic level.

David is a founding partner of Bridgeway Partners, a consulting firm dedicated to helping mission-centered leaders reframe and resolve intractable social and environmental problems. He is also a founding director of the consulting group and informational website www.appliedsystemsthinking.com and...

Patrick chats with executive coach and author Brenda Harrington to discuss workplace discrimination, the power of personal stories, authentic leadership, and more.

Brenda is the founder and CEO of Adaptive Leadership Strategies, LLC. She is the author of Access Denied: Addressing Workplace Disparities and Discrimination. 

Brenda offers coaching and consulting solutions to help companies develop and grow top talent. She has helped a range of clients from around the world successfully increase influence across their organizations by boosting productivity and engagement, developing creative solutions to complex challenges, aligning their vision among stakeholders, and developing effective exp...

Patrick chats leadership with fellow executive coach and consultant, Beth Napleton, NYC-based founder of Beth Napleton Consulting.

Beth offers senior leaders in education and at mission-driven organizations a clear path to excellence through individual, executive and group coaching experiences. Additionally, she offers busy leaders a container and her expertise so they can expand their capacity in all areas.

Beth leverages her extensive experience in education to work with senior leaders in education and mission-driven organizations to help them clear out the “adult problems” that get in the way of student success.

Beth is a nat...

Patrick sits down with Darian Rodriguez Heyman to talk about fundraising, with a focus on how the nonprofit board should be engaged.

Darian is an accomplished fundraiser, nonprofit consultant, philanthropic advisor, and best-selling author. He began his life’s work “helping people help” during his five-year tenure as Executive Director of Craigslist Foundation, where he founded their hugely popular Nonprofit Boot Camp and grew it to the largest nonprofit gathering in San Francisco Bay Area history after only one year. In an effort to build the capacity of even more leaders, Heyman then authored the Nonprofit Fundraising 101 and ed...

Patrick catches up with colleague Forrest Alton from 1000 Feathers Consulting, as Forrest celebrates a 7-year business milestone by sharing some key lessons learned about the work of creating social impact.

After spending nearly ten years as the CEO of a highly successful nonprofit organization, Forrest stepped down in 2016 to launch 1000 Feathers and has since focused his energy on transforming the work of the social service sector to be better equipped to handle the ever-expanding needs of communities and the people who live in them: posing the difficult questions needed to prompt innovation and transformation, helping organizations think...

In this anniversary episode, Patrick explains the rebranding of his coaching company, and shares what they really do for their clients.

As we prepare Episode 100 for some special announcements, this “in-between” episode covers some “best of” highlights from the first 100 episodes. This gives a great (albeit small) sampling of the kind of content found on The Leadership Window.

Patrick sits down with Executive Career Coach Randi Roberts to discuss the challenges leaders face along their career path. From figuring out where your career is headed to getting unstuck when you lose your mojo, Randi covers the 8 pillars of career satisfaction and how she helps leaders navigate their careers effectively.

Randi Roberts, MBA, PCC, is the President of Randi Roberts Coaching, LLC, and founder of the Fulfilling Career, Happy Life community. Randi is an Executive and Career-Life Coach, helping people love their work as they achieve their career goals.

Before becoming a certified coach...

In this episode, Patrick shares some of the insights he gains when coaching leaders. Specifically, Patrick discusses:

We all experience times in our organizational leadership journeys when chaos seems to take over. One crisis after another creates stress and anxiety among the entire team. This can turn toxic quickly.

In this episode, Patrick shares a helpful model for managing the environment during times of organizational crisis.