Practical Leadership

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8 January 2026

Some things in sales leadership are easy to say but hard to do. Like being brave enough to push back on customers. Or helping your team give up short-term comfort to build long-term pipeline. In...

5 January 2026

What happens when you treat frontline hourly workers like mission-critical professionals? In this episode, I sit down with Amrit Dhaliwal, CEO of Walfinch, to explore what empathetic leadership really looks like in the real world—and...

18 December 2025

In this episode of Leadership That Sells, I sit down with Joe Davis, former Head of BCG North America, transformation expert, and author of The Generous Leader. Joe shares a refreshing, clear-eyed perspective on what...

1 December 2025

In this episode I sit down with Milam Miller — author of The Charisma Craft and founder of Be Confident and Kind — to dismantle the myth that charisma is innate and to show how...

20 November 2025

A precise explanation of why activity increases but momentum doesn’t – and why leadership intuition often misfires. Most sales teams aren’t teams at all. They’re collections of high-performing individuals running in parallel—lone wolves, each doing...

10 November 2025

In this episode, I’m joined by Andrew Oxley — a seasoned executive coach, author of The Four Faces of Frustration, and founder of The Oxley Group. With a career spanning decades and companies like Coca-Cola,...

6 November 2025

In this episode of Leadership that Sells, I’m joined by Casey Jacox, elite performance coach, speaker, author of Win the Relationship, Not the Deal, and former #1 sales producer for a decade straight. Casey and...

30 October 2025

Hiring salespeople is hard. Hiring the right ones is harder. David Russell – pioneering leadership coach, systems builder, author of five books and host of over 300 podcasts – joins me to unpack his proven,...

27 October 2025

If you’ve ever tried to “manage” a maverick, you’ll know it’s a losing game. Judith Germain – leadership strategist, author of The Maverick Paradox, and founder of the Maverick Paradox consultancy – joins me to...

6 October 2025

Most leaders think their biggest threat is what they don’t know. The truth is, it’s what they don’t know they don’t know. In this conversation with Kevin McCarthy – bestselling author of Blind Spots, creator...

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