Leaders Rising Podcast
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<p>Real conversations on leadership, culture, and multiplying impact.</p><p>Join our team and guests as we explore what it takes to lead well, build healthy teams, and create lasting organizational change—one episode at a time.</p><p>We equip growing companies to create bigger futures and build thriving cultures by developing leaders worth following.</p>
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Recent Episodes
June 17, 2026
Below the Waterline: What Leaders Don't Know About Their People with Tim Dittloff
<p>Most leaders know their team at the surface level. They know the roles, the deliverables, the performance trends. What they don't know is what's going on below the waterline in the lives and motivations of their people. And according to Tim [LAST NAME], not knowing is how organizations quietly run aground.</p><p>Tim is a USCG-licensed merchant mariner and leadership coach who uses sailing as both a metaphor and a hands-on experience for executive teams. He joined Aaron Lee to talk about what it takes to actually know the people you lead, and why the teams that can't talk to each other on the water are the same teams that can't talk to each other in the building.</p><p>The conversation moves from the Indian Ocean to Mongolia — and picks up a Harvard Business Review line along the way that is hard to shake: hurry and care can't coexist.</p><p></p><h2>Key moments</h2><ul><li><b>0:17</b> — "Below the waterline": what leaders miss when they only coexist with their teams</li><li><b>2:32</b> — The Vestas Wind: how a professional race crew ran aground in the Indian Ocean with GPS on</li><li><b>4:10</b> — Zach Mercurio (HBR): "Hurry and care can't coexist"</li><li><b>6:31</b> — The best leader Tim ever worked for: a three-star general who knew his kids' names four times a year</li><li><b>7:30</b> — Merle Freytag and "lack of candor can kill"</li><li><b>10:32</b> — How a toxic race crew became the idea for a leadership business</li><li><b>13:40</b> — USCG Rule 5 on the water and in an architectural art firm's org chart</li><li><b>19:00</b> — 5 Voices in Mongolia: three languages, one shared framework, a nurturer who finally understood his role</li><li><b>23:10</b> — Every role on a sailboat matters — including the "rail meat"</li><li><b>24:00</b> — New addition: a karate dojo and why the basics are the whole game</li></ul><p></p><h2>About Tim Dittloff</h2><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/timdittloff/" target="_blank">Tim Dittloff on LinkedIn</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://LeadersRisingNetwork.com/fullsail" target="_blank">Full Sail Leadership Experiences</a></li></ul><p></p><p>Tim Dittloff is a USCG-licensed merchant mariner and leadership coach. He works with executive teams using sailing as a hands-on leadership experience, and partners with Leaders Rising Network on 5 Voices-based development. He shares leadership insights regularly on LinkedIn.</p><p></p><h2>Resources</h2><ul><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://leadersrisingnetwork.com/5-voices" target="_blank">5 Voices Assessment</a></li><li><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://hbr.org/2025/05/the-power-of-mattering-at-work" target="_blank">Zach Mercurio, "The Power of Mattering at Work" — Harvard Business Review</a></li></ul><p></p><h2>About the show</h2><p>Leaders Rising is the podcast of Leaders Rising Network, a culture and leadership consultancy based in Glen Allen, VA. New episodes drop regularly. Subscribe wherever you listen.</p>
April 22, 2026
Training in 2026: Everyone Wants Growth, No One Has Time
<p>You keep telling your team that development is the priority. You mean it. Then Monday hits. The meetings run long. The email pile grows. The project list shows up with the same work and fewer weeks. By Friday, development is still on the board. It just never got touched.</p><p></p><p>In this episode, Aaron sits down with Becky Rivest to work through Training Magazine's take on what 2026 looks like for people focused leaders. AI is moving faster than policy. Return to office is still a fight. A Gen Z quarter life crisis is pulling good people out early in their careers. And through all of it, leadership development keeps landing at number one on the priority list and last on the actual calendar. Becky names the real issue. It is not that leaders do not care. Every change requires a slow down, and almost nobody has permission to take one.</p><p></p><p>The fix is not another workshop. It is not a new platform. It is one honest conversation with one employee on your team. Ask them if they can see the line from their role to where the company is going. Start there. Everything else follows.</p><p></p><p><b>Show Outline</b></p><ul><li>03:53 What overwhelm actually looks like in a leader's day</li><li>06:58 Return to office in 2026</li><li>09:06 HR, IT, and the AI conversation nobody is ready for</li><li>11:21 Upskilling and the Gen Z quarter life crisis</li><li>14:41 Where change fatigue really comes from</li><li>17:30 Why development stays stuck at number one</li><li>20:57 Rhythms over events and the five moments of need</li><li>25:13 One move leaders can make this week</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Resources mentioned:</b></p><ul><li>Training Magazine: What's in the Mix for 2026. <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://trainingmag.com/whats-in-the-mix-for-2026/" target="_blank">https://trainingmag.com/whats-in-the-mix-for-2026/</a></li><li>WSJ: Sharpie brings US production back through upskilling. <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.wsj.com/business/sharpie-us-production-cost-cutting-d9ba2abd" target="_blank">https://www.wsj.com/business/sharpie-us-production-cost-cutting-d9ba2abd</a></li><li>Bob Mosher: The Five Moments of Need framework</li></ul><p></p><p>Visit the <b>LRN Learning Center</b> for full show notes at <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://leadersrisingnetwork.com/training-in-2026-everyone-wants-growth-no-one-has-time/" target="_blank">LeadersRisingNetwork.com</a></p>
April 8, 2026
Building the System When You Don't Have a Roadmap
<p>Year one was slow. There were empty seats at the leadership table, a culture that needed rebuilding, and no clear map for how to get from where things were to where they needed to go. What came out of those years was not a perfect plan. It was a system, built gradually, through clarity about people, through honest assessment of gaps, and through a commitment to developing leaders on purpose rather than by accident.</p><p></p><p>In this episode, recorded live during the Rising book launch event, Aaron Lee shares the story of stepping into a leadership role with more problems than answers, and what it actually took to build something that worked. Tom Nebel follows with a look at the tensions that don't disappear even when your systems are healthy: leaders who never asked for the role they're now carrying, the balance between support and challenge, and what genuine accountability looks like when it comes from the top.</p><p></p><p>This episode closes out our three-part series from the Rising launch event, and it may be the most personal conversation of the three.</p><p></p><p><b>What you'll hear in this episode:</b></p><ul><li>What it looks like to build a people system from scratch, without a roadmap</li><li>The growth pathway every leader travels, and how to develop people through it intentionally</li><li>Why organizations don't rise because of heroic leaders, they rise because of intentional systems</li><li>The tension between being supportive and being demanding, and why both matter</li><li>What honest humility looks like from the front of the room, and why it changes everything</li></ul><p></p><p><b><i>Rising</i></b> is a book for organizations that are growing but quietly losing clarity along the way. Written by Jeff Lovell and Aaron Lee of Leaders Rising Network, it makes the case that most growth problems are clarity problems, and that the path forward is building an intentional people system, not pushing harder.</p><p></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://go.leadersrisingnetwork.com/rising-event/" target="_blank">Get a free copy of <b><i>Rising</i></b>.</a></p><p></p><p><b>Show Outline</b></p><ul><li>6:24 - Building a System of Clarity and Infrastructure</li><li>8:50 - Developing Leaders and Overcoming Overwhelm</li><li>12:56 - World-Class Leadership and Organizational Success</li><li>14:28 - Tensions in Leadership and Organizational Health</li><li>19:07 - Balancing Support and Challenge in Leadership</li><li>24:27 - The Role of Intentional Systems in Leadership</li><li>25:02 - The Impact of Leadership on Organizational Success</li></ul>
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<p>Real conversations on leadership, culture, and multiplying impact.</p><p>Join our team and guests as we explore what it takes to lead well, build healthy teams, and create lasting organizational change—one episode at a time.</p><p>We equip growing companies to create bigger futures and build thriving cultures by developing leaders worth following.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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