Aaron Lee is CEO of Leaders Rising Network and is passionate about unlocking the true potential of leaders and teams. With experience in nonprofits and emergency management, Aaron has guided government, healthcare, nonprofit, and higher education organizations to navigate change and develop leaders who fight for each other. He is the author of The New Generation Leader and host of the podcast of the same name. Aaron holds a degree from the University of Richmond and a Master of Divinity. He lives in Richmond with his wife and two daughters.
Derek Stake, VP of Operations and Engineering at The Cleveland Vibrator Company, joins the Leaders Rising Podcast to talk about moving from managing process to leading people. In this episode Derek Stake came up as an engineer, and for years he ran his teams the way he ran a production line: manage the variation, follow
Tim Dittloff, a USCG-licensed merchant mariner and leadership coach, on what leaders miss when they only coexist with their teams, and why the crew that can’t talk on the water can’t talk in the building.
5 Voices rests on a measurement chain that runs back to the Big Five, the gold standard in academic personality psychology. Here is exactly how strong that evidence is, and where it stops.
Your CFO will not fund leadership development on faith. Show the cost of doing nothing, priced against your own meetings, deferred decisions, and redirected senior hours, and the case makes itself.
Most leadership training is run like a fire drill: one room, one day, gone by Friday. A real system has four phases, and skipping any one of them is why nothing changes.
Training Magazine says 2026 is leadership development’s moment. Almost nobody is starting. Why it’s a system problem, not a willpower problem, and the one honest conversation that gets you unstuck.
Technology amplifies whatever is already running underneath it. Before your next implementation, the real question is the organizational operating system you are installing it on.
Culture rarely collapses. It drifts, one pressured moment at a time, and the leader setting the pace is usually the last to see it. From the Rising launch episode with Jeff Lovell, Becky Rivest, and Mike Pumphrey.
Inside a transformational retreat for Virginia’s private college presidents — and the tool helping leaders measure what really matters When 20 private college presidents from across Virginia gathered this fall, they came for more than a dashboard review and budget briefing. They came to reconnect: with one another, with their personal mission, and with something
A high-potential leader attends a training, comes back energized, and then nothing changes. Why most programs stop at the surface, and the four-part rhythm (B-SPOKE) that moved the numbers.
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