Executive Commute With Jayson Krause

About Executive Commute With Jayson Krause

Executive Commute with Jayson Krause is your one-stop podcast to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to leadership in today's volatile and complex business environment. Each episode delivers expert insights, along with practical advice, on navigating the changes and challenges you face as a leader. Learn about the science of high performance, how to design a culture of innovation, feedback techniques that will have an immediate impact, using gamification for better results—the list goes on and on. Think of this podcast as having an executive coach sharing coaching nudges, actionable insights, and valuable resources with you in a bite-size format.

Publisher

Level 52 | Jayson Krause

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Jan 2019

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

123 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   #121: Why Resilient Businesses Can't Depend on the Owner

   In Episode #121 of The Executive Commute, Jayson Krause is joined by business and enterprise value creation coach Linda Ratner to explore resilience in leadership, life, and business, and why a resilient company cannot depend on the owner carrying everything alone. Linda's path spans emergency-room nursing, entrepreneurship, scaling Impact Urgent Care to seven locations, selling to private equity, and eventually coaching business owners and leadership teams. She explains how triage, staying calm under pressure, setting clear priorities, building accountability, and putting the right people in the right roles became essential leadership disciplines. The conversation then goes deeper into Linda's personal story. She shares experiences of childhood instability, abuse, loss, and rebuilding her life after leaving home with $200. Her perspective on resilience is not about ignoring hardship. It is about maintaining faith that circumstances can change, taking ownership of what you can control, and continuing to act even when the path forward is difficult. Jayson and Linda connect that personal resilience back to business: culture must be modelled, difficult conversations require clear standards, owners need to let go of work others can own, and resilience has to be distributed across people, systems, financial discipline, and leadership accountability. Content note: This episode includes discussion of childhood abuse, sexual abuse, addiction, and suicide. Episode timestamps: 00:00 From ER nurse to business coach 03:12 Triage, calm, and decision-making under pressure 08:20 Building structure around priorities and accountability 10:23 Why leaders do not need to do everything themselves 12:00 What Linda learned about being a CEO 13:27 Lessons from the ER and developing people 18:32 What makes a business owner coachable 19:50 Difficult conversations and broken promises 21:26 Why leaders avoid accountability 24:57 Ownership starts with the leader 27:15 Living your values and modelling culture 30:40 Staying connected as a company grows 32:20 What CEOs need to stop doing 35:34 Linda's earliest experiences with hardship 37:00 Childhood instability and learning to cope 39:13 Leaving home and building a new life 43:24 Making meaning after sexual abuse 45:44 Putting herself through school without guidance 48:13 Discovering resilience 49:21 Linda's definition of resilience 51:05 Taking ownership of your life 54:48 Grief, anger, and loss 56:52 The mindset that carried Linda through adversity 58:35 Purpose and helping others 1:00:35 What hardship taught her about control 1:03:11 Agency, acceptance, and what you can control 1:05:24 Building a resilient business beyond the owner 1:06:56 Where to find Linda Ratner Prefer to watch? Find the full video episode of The Executive Commute on the Level 52 Inc. YouTube channel. Learn more about Linda Ratner: https://www.ratnerconsult.com Subscribe to Level 52 Inc. on YouTube for full conversations, clips, and more leadership content. Follow Jayson Krause LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayson-krause/

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   #120: What Actually Changes People?

   In Episode #120 of The Executive Commute, Jayson Krause steps back from four recent conversations to ask one leadership question: what actually changes people? Across discussions with Steve Rice, Dr. Ted Vokes, Chris Foy, and Murray Rodgers, a pattern emerges. Leaders often spend their energy trying to improve behaviour directly, but the stronger lever may be the conditions that shape behaviour in the first place. Jayson revisits Steve Rice's case for human empowerment over human resources and why engagement efforts can miss the deeper relationship between people and their work. He then draws on Dr. Ted Vokes' work on dark traits and dark-activated behaviour to explore how culture can influence whether harmful patterns spread inside a team. From there, the episode turns practical. Jayson shares a two-week coaching experiment inspired by Chris Foy: ask one frontier-pushing question, ask only one question at a time, and leave enough silence for thinking to happen. He closes with Murray Rodgers' reframing of imposter syndrome and the idea that the grass may be greener on the inside. The episode also includes a preview of Champions Summit and a reminder about Level 52 leadership offsites. Episode timestamps: 00:00 Four conversations, one leadership question 05:09 Culture, dark traits, and the 20% + 20% 09:48 The frontier question and the coaching experiment 14:46 The grass is greener on the inside Prefer to watch? Find the full video episode of The Executive Commute on the Level 52 Inc. YouTube channel. Subscribe to Level 52 Inc. on YouTube for full conversations, clips, and more leadership content. Follow Jayson Krause LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayson-krause/

3. 

   30 Sept 2026

   #119: Human Flourishing

   In Episode #119 of The Executive Commute, Jayson Krause is joined by educator and human flourishing advocate Steve Rice to explore what it means to live, work, and lead from the inside out. Steve shares how his own path moved from achievement, external validation, and a career that did not feel like an authentic fit toward a life centred on calling, purpose, and work as an expression of who he is. He describes the difference between living from the outside in and the inside out, and why fear often remains present when people move toward meaningful growth. The conversation explores Steve's faith-informed view of human flourishing, including the shift from achieving to receiving, the role of spirituality and historical wisdom traditions, and his distinction between positional and possessional leadership. Jayson and Steve also examine how those ideas translate into organizations through human empowerment, spaces for ideas, and cultures that help people become more fully themselves. They discuss the Office of Possibilities, Humanitas, disruptive innovation, and why new ideas may need to be built separately but in service to the larger organization. Steve also explains why human flourishing is not simply self-improvement, using the transformation from caterpillar to butterfly as a metaphor for becoming something fundamentally different rather than polishing the current version of yourself. The episode closes by connecting human flourishing to AI and the future of work. Steve argues that technological progress should be paired with an equally intentional effort to rediscover what it means to be human, framing this moment as the beginning of a possible human revolution. Episode timestamps: 00:02 Human flourishing, innovation, and humanpreneurship 00:31 Steve Rice's path to human flourishing 03:16 Learning to listen to your life 04:41 When work becomes joy 05:35 Is your work an expression of who you are? 07:59 Saying yes to a calling 09:58 Making fear your ally 12:39 Preparing people for an unknown future 14:00 Drawing out what is already inside people 16:14 Vertical versus horizontal living 17:49 Spirituality beyond religious language 20:13 The Office of Possibilities 22:47 Rediscovering desires beneath obligation 23:10 A practical 10-minute reflection practice 24:59 Achieving versus receiving 30:15 Agency, participation, and relationship 35:53 Positional versus possessional leadership 37:42 The personal and societal cost of outside-in living 39:25 When the vertical informs the horizontal 43:53 Human empowerment versus exploitation 45:40 Building an expression-driven culture 48:10 An Office of Possibilities inside an organization 49:16 Building a human flourishing academy 51:49 Why the work of flourishing is messy 54:53 Building innovation on the edge 57:35 Separate, but in service to the organization 59:16 What human flourishing actually means 1:03:46 Why a better version of yourself is not enough 1:07:03 Human flourishing and organizational flourishing 1:09:52 Will AI help or hinder human flourishing? 1:11:45 The business case for human flourishing 1:16:38 Exploitation versus expression 1:17:06 The human revolution 1:20:29 Where to learn more about Steve Rice 1:21:29 Leadership through the lens of human flourishing Prefer to watch? Find the full video episode of The Executive Commute on the Level 52 Inc. YouTube channel. Subscribe to Level 52 Inc. on YouTube for full conversations, clips, and more leadership content. Follow Jayson Krause LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayson-krause/

Who has been a guest on Executive Commute With Jayson Krause

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• Ted Vokes
• Chris Foy
• Murray Rodgers
• Cathie Saroka
• Lara Koretsky

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 55 / 100

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Quality

79

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

76

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