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Welcome to the 'Lead Smarter. Not Harder' Podcast by David Kent, your window into the minds of visionary leaders, trailblazing innovators, and savvy business owners.
Get ready to immerse yourself in the captivating stories and invaluable lessons from the best and brightest minds in the business.
Get ready to immerse yourself in the captivating stories and invaluable lessons from the best and brightest minds in the business.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 16 days
Average audio length:
40 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
25 episodes
since May 6, 2024
episodic
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Ben Mimmack runs Sulis Capital, an independent sponsor focused on the lower middle market. He buys businesses where the founder retains a meaningful minority stake and stays operationally engaged as a leader of leaders.
Which makes day one of any acquisition a relational problem before it's an oper…
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Brian Anderson joined me on the show, and we explored what it takes to lead an organization through a shift as big as AI, and why that kind of leadership has to start with the leader going first.
Brian is the CEO and co-founder of Augusto Digital, where he helps organizations harness AI, custom sof…
"The fact that you're even willing to doubt yourself means you're self-aware enough that if you didn't feel like you were doing a great job, you would go and try to improve yourself. So David, I pronounce you, based on the power vested in me, a good leader." - Ben Arendt
I'd just told Ben I wasn't …
Tracey Grove says the best leaders ask before they tell. In this episode she explains why and how question-led leadership builds ownership in a team while answer-led leadership builds dependency.
Tracey is a leadership consultant, executive coach, and the founder of Pure Symmetry Coaching and Consu…
Dr. Aurora Dawn Benton joined me on the show, and we explored how leaders underestimate the power of change management at the microlevel and often mistake human problems as something that can be fixed with structure and policy.
Aurora is the Founder and Chief Change Agent of Astrapto LLC, a sustain…
Perfectionism can get mistakenly glorified as a commitment to quality. Todd Greider has spent years coaching leaders through the fear response that sits underneath it.
In this conversation, Todd and David work through the patterns that cause leaders to stall decisions, block releases, and stay behi…
The instinct to step in, solve the problem, and move the team forward is exactly what made you a great individual contributor. It's also what keeps many leaders stuck.
In this conversation, Katie Anderson and David explore what it really means to make the shift from doing to leading, and why most l…
Most leaders think their title gives them influence. It doesn’t.
In this episode of Lead Smarter, leadership consultant Wesley Dove shares the lessons he learned early in his career when he was tasked with implementing change in a manufacturing facility — while having zero authority.
He had to co…
Expectations sound reasonable.
But they create an imbalance.
In this episode, Andrew D. Wittman breaks down why expectations often fail teams and how agreements transform accountability.
Andrew shares lessons from military leadership, federal service, and decades of resilience training to explain:…
Most leaders believe multitasking makes them more productive.
Research suggests the opposite.
In this episode of Lead Smarter, David Kent speaks with leadership strategist Michael de Lisser about the hidden performance costs of multitasking — and why focus, communication, and self-awareness are t…
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