# Mike Mcdonnell

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The Leader You've Actually Been

Leaders often move from crisis to crisis and success to success without ever stopping to ask a harder question: What are the actual patterns in how I lead? In this episode, Mike McDonnell introduces the The Field Notes exercise — a structured, two-hour reflective practice designed to give leaders a…

Who Would You Follow - and Why?

Episode 8 marks a turning point in CEO Exercises. After seven episodes devoted to self-awareness and inner freedom — the "First Week" of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises — Mike McDonnell pivots into new territory: actively building leadership capability. This episode draws on the "Second Week" and …

The Descent--The Empathy Every Leader Owes

Episode 9 continues the Second Week of CEO Exercises, picking up directly from Episode 8's examination of Jesus as a leader. Host Mike McDonnell guides listeners through an adaptation of Ignatius of Loyola's Contemplation on the Incarnation, framed not as theology but as a leadership meditation tha…

Which Value System Is Running You?

Episode 10 adapts one of the most psychologically sophisticated meditations in Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises — the Meditation on the Two Standards — into a practical leadership tool. At its core is a single, unsettling claim: there are two competing value systems alive inside every leade…

What Have You Actually Let Go Of? — The Two Questions That Test a Leader's Inner Freedom

Episode 11 of CEO Exercises tackles the most stubborn failure in leadership development: the gap between knowing and doing. Many leaders can speak fluently about ego, attachment, and inner freedom, yet lead exactly as they always have. The insights never cross into action. Mike McDonnell argues thi…

Imaginative Contemplation - The Leadership Instrument Hiding in Plain Sight

In Episode 12 of CEO Exercises, Mike McDonnell steps back from adapting individual Ignatian meditations to reveal the engine that has powered the last several episodes: imaginative contemplation. He opens with a provocation — leaders already trust disciplined imagination with enormous stakes throug…

Ask Me Anything: Closing Out Season 1

In this season finale, host Mike McDonnell closes Season 1 of CEO Exercises by answering seventeen listener questions gathered throughout the season. He explains why he created the podcast — primarily to share practices that elevate leadership, but also to convey the growth potential and the sheer …

Coffee Guy Coffee Podcast presents Coffee & CarClicks feat. Lori Berkson & Mike McDonnell

Coffee Guy Coffee Podcast presents Coffee & CarClicks feat. Lori Berkson & Mike McDonnell Welcome to the Car Guy Coffee Podcast with a New Series “Coffee & CarClicks”. Kickstart your day the right way  and join us as we tap into the brightest minds and most passionate voices across the automotive w…

The Quiet Land Rush with Mike McDonnell and Tom Kingsbury (Part 1)

Matt and Ryan sit down with appraisers Mike McDonnell and Tom Kingsbury of NC Wheeler & Associates to unpack their new report, The Quiet Land Rush, which maps 35 years of Montana land sales data and value trends using AI-assisted heat maps. In Part 1, they trace how amenity-driven demand, elk migra…

Water Rights, Easements, and Corner Crossing: Mike McDonnell and Tom Kingsbury (Part 2)

In Part 2, appraisers Mike McDonnell and Tom Kingsbury of NC Wheeler & Associates shift from the report to the mechanics of ranch appraisal: how improvements and conservation easements affect value, where the corner crossing debate could change access, and how water rights and the income approach f…