ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
RATCHET-UP with Allan Breidenbach is a leadership podcast for executives, managers, and business owners who need to drive change without losing their people.
Most companies focus on process, and that’s where things break.
In this show, Allan Breidenbach, president and general manager of Wick Buildings and creator of the RATCHET-UP system, shares a practical, people-first approach to change management. Through conversations with leaders and executives across industries, each episode breaks down real-world leadership challenges and shows how to build readiness, create alignment, earn trust, communicate with clarity, and keep teams engaged through change.
You will learn how to lead organizational change with less resistance, strengthen team alignment, improve productivity and operational efficiency, avoid common leadership mistakes that slow progress, and turn change into measurable profit and performance.
If you lead a team, run a business, or manage operations, this podcast shows you how to stop forcing change and start leading it in a way people will follow.
Most companies focus on process, and that’s where things break.
In this show, Allan Breidenbach, president and general manager of Wick Buildings and creator of the RATCHET-UP system, shares a practical, people-first approach to change management. Through conversations with leaders and executives across industries, each episode breaks down real-world leadership challenges and shows how to build readiness, create alignment, earn trust, communicate with clarity, and keep teams engaged through change.
You will learn how to lead organizational change with less resistance, strengthen team alignment, improve productivity and operational efficiency, avoid common leadership mistakes that slow progress, and turn change into measurable profit and performance.
If you lead a team, run a business, or manage operations, this podcast shows you how to stop forcing change and start leading it in a way people will follow.
Update frequency:
every 5 days
Average audio length:
55 minutes
English
United States
7 episodes
since Sept. 8, 2026
episodic
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Matt Cranney has spent 22 years at M3 Insurance — a private, independent agency with 68 shareholders and no majority owner — and he's now Executive Vice President helping lead its strategy, small-business division, and HR consulting arm.In this conversation with host Allan Breidenbach, Matt breaks …
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On this episode of Ratchet Up, Allan Breidenbach sits down with Michael Carr, President & CEO of Naviant, to talk about leading people through the fastest wave of technological change most leaders have ever faced: agentic AI. Mike shares how Naviant is transforming from a 40-year-old value-adde…
On this episode of Ratchet Up, Allan Breidenbach sits down with Steve Farsht, co-founder of Corazon Capital, an early-stage venture fund based in Chicago. Steve shares hard-won lessons from 15+ years and 250-300 portfolio companies — from the danger of "growth at all costs" thinking, to why emotion…
Tony Misura, founder and CEO of The Misura Group, has spent decades recruiting executives in the building-products supply chain — which means he's seen exactly why good people leave good companies, why compensation plans fail, and why "people before profits" is usually misunderstood.In this episode…
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