The Global Leadership Podcast

Global Leadership Network

  • 20 minutes 12 seconds
    Ep 168: GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft on the Essentials of Leaving a Legacy

    This month, our focus at the GLN is on leaving a leadership legacy and today podcast host (and GLN VP of Marketing), Whitney Putnam interviews GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft on his experience with organizational transitions and successions. David shares gems from his 30 years of local church leadership, including how to get started planning a legacy, and the one thing that can absolutely derail a positive transition. Every leader should be thinking about what (or who) will follow them, and this episode is a great starting point for your plans. 

    1 April 2025, 4:09 pm
  • 40 minutes 53 seconds
    Ep 167: David Ashcraft on Building Team Culture

    A healthy and effective team culture is essential to organizational success, but building a culture of excellence is not automatic. Today’s episode is a live recording of a workshop led by GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft. In the workshop, David shares how to establish team culture in a practical and effective way and explains how values and behaviors help drive successful outcomes for a team. In addition, David also runs through some of the specific values and behaviors that currently define the culture at the GLN.

    25 March 2025, 4:23 pm
  • 40 minutes 19 seconds
    Ep 166: Mike Krzyzewski ("Coach K")—A Legend Shares Leadership Essentials

    In this special live recording of the podcast, Craig Groeschel interviews former Duke University men’s basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski (“Coach K”): a Naismith Hall of Fame coach, five-time national champion at Duke, and six-time gold medalist as head Coach of the US Men’s National Team. Coach K shares essential ingredients that helped produce his extraordinary career, including how to keep leadership current and how to respond to unexpected challenges. Regardless of where you are in your leadership journey, this episode is a can’t-miss opportunity to learn from a master of longevity and excellence.

    11 March 2025, 4:06 pm
  • 26 minutes 46 seconds
    Ep 165: GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft on Nuts and Bolts of Teamwork

    Today’s episode draws on the wealth of experience of GLN President and CEO, David Ashcraft, as he and GLN VP of Marketing Whitney Putnam cover a variety of topics related to working with teams. This conversation ranges from values, to empowerment, to conflict, and is absolutely full of practical leadership gems.  

    5 March 2025, 3:08 am
  • 59 minutes 44 seconds
    Ep 164: Marcus Buckingham on How Love Drives Business Success

    “Love” and “work” are not words that are usually thought of in the same context. For today’s guest, however, “love” has a measurable and positive impact on the metrics of work. Marcus Buckingham is known for starting the “Strengths Revolution.” He is also a global researcher and New York Times bestselling author, and he recently joined the GLN’s David Ashcraft for a conversation about the role that love plays—or should play—in our work. Whether you are a leader who wants to know how to bring the absolute best out of those you lead, or you are curious how to discover the things you truly love (and why they matter at work), we invite you to listen to this episode.  

    26 February 2025, 4:30 pm
  • 45 minutes 26 seconds
    Ep 163: Paula Faris on Leading with Passion and Intuition

    Paula Faris joins the podcast today to talk about the different ways leaders can “lead with heart.” Paula is an award-winning journalist, bestselling author, podcast host and the founder of CARRY Media, and she sat down for this conversation with Global Leadership Network President and CEO David Ashcraft. Together they explore the roles that intuition and passion have had in Paula’s life, how leaders can protect themselves while practicing openness and authenticity and how leading with heart informs and shapes Paula’s leadership today.

    18 February 2025, 9:22 pm
  • 18 minutes 5 seconds
    Ep 162: GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft on Leading with Heart

    This month’s theme at the Global Leadership Network is “leading with heart,” and in this episode of the Global Leadership Podcast, Whitney Putnam sits down with GLN president and CEO David Ashcraft. Together, they explore what it means to lead with heart and examine practical ways that leaders can begin to lead with openness and authenticity. David and Whitney also discuss how to avoid some potential pitfalls that can occur as leaders begin to open up to those around them.

    11 February 2025, 6:01 pm
  • 35 minutes 4 seconds
    Ep 161: Molly Fletcher on Choosing Fulfilment Over Achievement

    As leaders, we understand that purpose and calling play critical roles in achieving our goals. This week’s guest highlights the potential pitfall of focusing solely on achievement. In this episode, former top sports agent Molly Fletcher shares how long-term joy and happiness come not from achievement but from daily improvement and fulfillment. At the 2024 Global Leadership Summit, she discussed key concepts from her book, Dynamic Drive: The Purpose-Fueled Formula for Sustainable Success, in a live interview with Jason Jaggard.

    28 January 2025, 4:30 pm
  • 36 minutes 15 seconds
    Ep 160: Megan Fate Marshman on Balancing Public Leadership with Private Disciplines

    One aspect of purpose and calling is being willing to live it out with freedom and joy. But what do you do if your purpose is highly visible and involves frequent accolades and applause? In this episode, author and speaker Megan Fate Marshman sits down with Jason Jaggard to share about how private disciplines help balance her public call. Together they explore the importance of slowing down, the importance of grounding your identity in Christ and how emotions like anger and anxiety can be signposts for us as leaders. If you’ve ever wondered how to stay rooted while maintaining a public ministry, this is a great episode to check out!

    14 January 2025, 3:21 pm
  • 20 minutes 18 seconds
    Ep 159: GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft on Being a Purposeful Leader

    “Vision leaks” is a well-known leadership axiom, and to kick off January’s theme of being a “purposeful leader,” Whitney Putnam sits down with GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft. In this conversation, they explore the role purpose and mission has in David’s life and leadership. We’ll also hear about some common pitfalls that leaders can face regarding purpose, and how he has learned to guard against them.     

    7 January 2025, 3:37 pm
  • 18 minutes 7 seconds
    Ep 157: Conflict—GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft

    Our topic for December is “conflict,” and GLN President and CEO gets us started with this conversation with Whitney Putnam. We invite you to listen as David shares how his approach to conflict has evolved and some of the practical lessons he’s learned over time. Conflict is inevitable, but it does not have to result in negative consequences; it can actually improve our relationships and our work together.

    12 December 2024, 8:31 pm
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