Accelerate Your Performance

About Accelerate Your Performance

Accelerate Your Performance is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Janet Pilcher, Managing Director of Studer Education and author of Hardwiring Excellence in Education. Every week, Janet highlights tactical and actionable strategies that leaders in educational organizations can hardwire to meet successful student, service, and people outcomes. Listen now, and you’ll see why it’s ranked by ListenNotes in the top 5% of podcasts worldwide. As she introduces a variety of pivotal leadership practices from the 9 Pillars of Leadership Excellence, Janet underscores the importance of seamlessly integrating each practice to deliver positive and impactful results. For each leadership practice she introduces, Janet provides a solid foundation and then collaborates with coaching experts to dig deeper and demonstrate its practical application. Janet also interviews leaders and partners who excel at the tactics to hear about their implementation journeys, hurdles they’ve faced, and their notable achievements. To bring it all together, she offers a broader perspective on leadership, interviewing guests about a diverse array of topics on their paths to achieving organizational excellence. Follow for weekly insights and actionable strategies to accelerate your performance and become your best at work!

Publisher

Studer Education

Category

business · education · government

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Jan 2019

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

34 of 454 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Learn From Lived Experiences - Part 2

   Dr. Janet Pilcher interviews Studer Education Leader Coach Bradley Roberson about how lived experiences shape authentic and empathetic leadership.

2. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Learn From Lived Experiences - Part 1

   Retired superintendent Bradley Roberson shares his invaluable lived experiences navigating educational change, offering leaders crucial lessons for future challenges.

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   21 Sept 2026

   The Power of People, Work, & Mattering: Reflecting on 450 Episodes

   Dr. Janet Pilcher reflects on 450 episodes, revealing how interconnectedness and treating others with respect empower effective leadership.

Inside a recent episode

Learn From Lived Experiences - Part 1

Published 28 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] You can have alignment, but if you don't have the connection of the people that are working inside of the system, that alignment can be framed. So that's why rounding having that connection point every 45 days with every team member in the Oxford School District. was vital to make sure that that alignment was sustainable across our system. And then also, Randy, you learn what's working and you learn what's not working, right? What is it that I need to continue to push to improve? What are those barriers that my team, that my students are facing, that my families are facing, that we can remove to give us a better opportunity to get quality outcome? […]

Who has been a guest on Accelerate Your Performance

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Bradley Roberson
• Keri Jo Sapp
• Dr Howard Spearman
• Vincent June
• Kelly Krostag

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

30,847

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

31 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 75 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

85

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

85

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Guest appearances

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