"I just don’t want to work here anymore.” After a 25-year career in which he worked his way up from social worker to the Senior Vice President at Park Ridge Hospital, Tom Brady's impulsively blurted out the words that had been brewing inside him for months. Tom was in the middle of a performance review when his boss had asked Tom why it seemed like he had lost a bit of his passion. It was this comment that triggered Tom’s stifled passion to re-emerge in his emphatic and decisive declaration. Reckless? Courageous? Irresponsible? Inspirational? Which descriptor would you use to describe a 49-year-old family man that abruptly left a successful career to “follow his passion” despite having 2 daughters heading for college and a 7-year old son at home? No matter your adjectives of choice, few would dispute that this was an audacious move…and an idealistic one. And so The XLR8 Team was born. Tune in to this episode to learn how Tom found the courage to make the leap and how he went on to create and deliver Wegmans Leadership University to over 300 senior leaders at Wegmans, which Danny Wegman credits as "one of the reasons we made it to #1" on Fortune's Best Companies to Work For!
"I just don’t want to work here anymore.”
After a 25-year career in which he worked his way up from social worker to the Senior Vice President at Park Ridge Hospital, Tom Brady's impulsively blurted out the words that had been brewing inside him for months. Tom was in the middle of a performance review when his boss had asked Tom why it seemed like he had lost a bit of his passion. It was this comment that triggered Tom’s stifled passion to re-emerge in his emphatic and decisive declaration.
Reckless? Courageous? Irresponsible? Inspirational? Which descriptor would you use to describe a 49-year-old family man that abruptly left a successful career to “follow his passion” despite having 2 daughters heading for college and a 7-year old son at home? No matter your adjectives of choice, few would dispute that this was an audacious move…and an idealistic one. And so The XLR8 Team was born.
Tune in to this episode to learn how Tom found the courage to make the leap and how he went on to create and deliver Wegmans Leadership University to over 300 senior leaders at Wegmans, which Danny Wegman credits as "one of the reasons we made it to #1" on Fortune's Best Companies to Work For!
[0:30] The story of the founding of the XLR8 Team
[2:00] Figuring out what was next after taking the leap
[3:25] How the "Unique Ability" gave Tom the courage to start his own company
[6:30] The early years of XLR8
[10:30] Creating the leadership program that came to be known as "Wegmans Leadership University"
[14:10] An overview of the EVOLutionary Leadership Process (known as Wegmans Leadership University inside Wegmans)
[15:50] The feeling of getting a testimonial from Danny Wegman: "One of the reasons we made it to #1 (on Fortune's Best Places To Work) was our work with The XLR8 Team"
[18:30] Teaching leaders to be great coaches
[21:50] "Hiring" his wife Elaine as an XLR8 Coach
[25:30] Discovering Conscious Capitalism and having Andrew join The XLR8 Team
[30:45] Creating companies where people care about more than just a paycheck
"You gotta love what you do and then find people that you can serve in doing what you love to do"
[32:15] How companies that practice Conscious Capitalism tap into our deepest motivations
[33:30] The barriers that keep more companies from adopting Conscious Capitalism
"There are now more businesses satisfying business needs and satisfying human needs"
[39:10] How to start your Conscious Capitalism journey with the Conscious Capitalism Activator and Conscious Capitalism Field Guide
[46:00] Recommended books on Conscious Capitalism
[47:00] The Conscious Capitalism ROC Chapter
www.ConsciousCapitalism.org
www.ConsciousCapitalismROC.org
[48:40] The future of Conscious Capitalism - collaborating with B corps, Best Places to Work, ESOP to grow the movement both locally and internationally
[51:50] A legacy project to bring the Inner Compass, which is at the core of the EVOLutionary Leadership process, to a wider audience through the Inner Compass Online Course
https://andrew-brady.mykajabi.com/inner-compass
Learn more about Tom and The XLR8 Team at:
www.TheXLR8Team.com