CancerCare CEO Christine Verini shares 30 years of purpose-driven leadership lessons, from personal tragedy to transforming healthcare access.

CEO Ticki Favaroth reveals how to lead authentically, build legacy, and focus on what you control in uncertain times. Transform your leadership.

The golden thread of great leadership: 8 CEOs share why empowering others beats controlling everything. From humble succession to radical transparency - discover the common thread connecting this quarter’s most transformative CEOs.

From Jeff Grass’s story: The key to rapid growth is subtraction. Deborah Fell on focus, culture & defying market trends when times get hard.

How do you survive losing 95% of your business overnight? Hungry Marketplace CEO Jeff Grass shares his playbook for crisis innovation & growth.

Why your hardest workers might be missing the mark—and the one cultural shift that transforms both businesses and lives.

Fix the process, not the person.” How one CEO’s philosophy created a thriving remote company decades before virtual work was accepted

Deborah Fell reflects on CEO Jonathan Moody’s radical humility, which involves building an executive team instead of trying to be the central driving force.

Jonathan Moody shares how a decade-long leadership handoff prepared him to lead one of architecture’s most innovative firms through uncertain times.

Deborah Fell reflects on Brian ”Lex” Luther’s leadership wisdom: Success comes through empowering your team, not just issuing directives.

President and CEO, Brian ”Lex” Luther shares how military leadership principles transformed Navy Mutual’s technology in a bold three-year renovation.

Discover the power of humble listening as Ryan Frederick shares how assumption-driven leadership fails while curiosity drives innovation.

What makes this conversation valuable is Ryan’s candid reflection on failures and how ego-based assumptions derailed even previously successful ventures. His advocacy for ”continuous not knowing” offers a counterintuitive but powerful framework for leaders.

This summary episode and playlist feature transformative discussions with leaders who have mastered the art of building thriving organizations through unconventional wisdom and authentic leadership.

Welcome to the 100th episode of Success Beneath the Surface. This is a podcast where we dig into what lies beneath the surface of a CEO's success, your success, and insights deeply rooted at times in family, beliefs, or a drive that's just always been there. Our top downloaded episodes include Lessons from Navy Seal Kyle Buckett, number 57, who challenges the notion of leadership from the top, and gives life-saving reasons to build leadership capability at all levels, or at least business-saving reasons.  James Hyman's episode number 64 gave fodder for a discussion on leading leaders, because if you have leadership at every level, the old management archetypes of top-down management simply don't work.  Key lessons on building cultures based on trust, transparency, accountability, and urgency can be found in episode number 74 with Clay Spitz, 54, Torey Carter-Conneen, episode 64 with James Hyman, and episode 72 with Ryan Clark.  And even when exogenous factors and forces create more uncertainty, the intentional leader, Will Bowie, in episode number 70, grows his business team and community through grit, determination,  and purposeful living and somehow still finds time to pay it forward. Check them all out. It strikes me that with all of these CEOs, in the words of Angela Duckworth in her book, Grit, it's not the intensity but the consistency that builds a sustainable business. Here is the playlist from this episode : EP74 Exterminating Distrust: M&A Successfully Merging Business Cultures EP64: Leading Leaders - Balancing Accountability and Empowerment EP57: Lessons from a SEAL - Culture Improvement with Culture Fit to Build Your Elite Team EP72: Building a Culture of Urgency 20 Seconds at a Time EP49: Navigating Change Through Stakeholder Engagement EP70: The Intentional Leader - Creating Generational Wealth and Opportunity  

Carl Satterwhite reveals how ”culture creep” affects workplaces and shares practical wisdom for bridging five generations while preserving organizational identity.

Carl Satterwhite, President and Owner of The RCF Group, offers invaluable insights for seasoned CEOs and emerging leaders as workplaces evolve post-pandemic with five generations working side by side.

In a world obsessed with ROI and KPIs, the most valuable asset might be sitting across from you at lunch.” This bonus conversation between Deborah Fell and Harold Green reveals something we often overlook in our digital-first world.

From pavement to planet: How Harold Green turned 50 years of business experience into a mission to make carbon reduction measurable and profitable.

Deborah Fell interviews Harold Green, CEO of Global Emissionairy, a business leader who has blended entrepreneurship with environmental stewardship throughout his career.