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Leadership – Jay Izso

by Jay Izso

A New Direction is a weekly podcast that interviews best selling authors from around the world in success and leadership to enhance your life, career, and business.

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  1. 6 Pillars of Leadership Where Most of Us Struggle

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard 6 Pillars of Leadership Most Bosses Get Backwards You can’t cheat the harvest. Not in farming, not in funeral service, and not in leadership. That’s the line I kept coming back to…

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  2. 3 Hard Truths Every Promoted Leader Must Face

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard 3 Hard Truths for a Leadership Mindset Shift Are you struggling to transition from a high-performing technical expert to an effective people manager? On the next live episode of A New...

  3. Success Redefined: Bob Winstead on Leadership with Purpose

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Success and Leadership with a Purpose What happens when your professional success is no longer enough to satisfy your personal “why”? This week on A New Direction, Coach Jay explores…

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  4. John Wooden and Pat Summitt Legendary Lessons for Success and Leadership

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Leadership Lessons from the Legends: Pat Summitt and John Wooden This week on A New Direction with Coach Jay Izso, get ready for a masterclass in leadership, personal growth, and…

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  5. Leadership Sharpeners – Major General John Gronski

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Your Leadership Can Become Dull Like a Knife in Your Home… You Need Some Honing Steal to Sharpen it. Leadership is never something we can fully master. It is an elusive journey to keep...

  6. Leadership from Who You Are Not Who You Were

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Moving Past Your Past So You Can Move Forward in Your Leadership Most of us have a tendency to ignore our past. We try to make light of it as if it has no effect on us. Here is an […]...

  7. Leader Hacks for the High-Level Leader

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Timeless Hacks for Every Leader Are you a high-level leader? Or are you an aspiring leader? Are you a CEO, Owner or founder? If this sounds like you then one thing, we all know for…

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  8. Leadership Principles from the War in Israel

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard SPECIAL MISSION: Leadership Principles from the War in Israel Major General (ret) John Gronski Having spent a few days in Israel during the Hamas/Israel conflict I had a different and...

  9. Leadership In A Time of Crisis

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard How is Leadership When You are in a Crisis? At some point or another ever business will find themselves in a crisis. Whether that is from inside the organization, such as a leadership...

  10. Discover Your Leadership Style For a Winning Career and Company

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Discover Your Leadership Style There are thousands of books when it comes to leadership. Most of the speak about specific attributes of leaders and leadership. There are many…

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  11. Leadership 2 Words at a Time: Simple Truths for Leading Complicated People

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Leadership for New Leaders and for the Experienced Leader Are you a new leader? Maybe you are a “seasoned” leader? Well, here is a show and a book that is aimed at new leaders, but the...

  12. Level Up Your Leadership – The Elevated Leader

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard When it comes to leadership we often focus on “leadership” skills. That sounds good, but that is nothing more than horizontal development. Focusing on those skills is like adding more...

  13. U.S. General John Gronski (Ret’d) – Iron Sharpened Leadership

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Happy Holidays from a A New Direction! I am so glad that you have been a part of the show. This has been without a doubt our best year in terms of you the listener. I am so grateful…

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  14. Be the Leader Who Makes A Difference – William Attaway

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard There is leadership and then there is the leader. Being a leader seems to be something that many want to do, but few understand what it takes to lead and lead well. Being a leader is…

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  15. How Leaders Create Connected and Accountable Teams by Building Trust

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Whether you are an Owner, CEO, Manager, or an Employee. One thing is absolutely true that when we trust each other it is easier for us to together as a team work be more productive,...

  16. Resilient Leadership Habits for Turbulent Times

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard To say that we are living in some turbulent times is an understatment. It is during turbulent times like these that we are all tested, but it is where we see great leadership emerge…

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  17. Leadership thru Images, Metaphors, and Stories…VisuaLeadership

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard They say, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. Isn’t it true? Psychologically our brain is wired to remember pictures easier and with much more clarity than listening to words or...

  18. The Amazon Way – Amazon’s 14 Leadership Principles

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Most of us use Amazon.com services. It is estimated that 65% of the U.S. population uses Amazon at least once a month. The leadership of Amazon fell on Jeff Bezos and he led and…

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  19. Leadership Lessons from OZ – Dr. Keven Gazzara

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard If you are like me you remember watching the Wizard of Oz and young Judy Garland playing the heroine Dorothy from a small time in Kansas. But what if the story was slightly rewritten....

  20. Leading in a Crisis – Major General John Gronski (ret’d)

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard We have all been through and continue to go through crisis. For the last two plus years we have been dealing with the pandemic. We have seen businesses crumble, people scatter…

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  21. The Language of Leadership – Joel Schwartzberg

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard As a leader we are called to be problem solvers. But we are also called to be great communicators. If we cannot communicate effectively…well…we will not be a leader for long. The part…

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  22. Leadership Behaviors for Success – Angie Morgan (U. S. Marine Ret’d)

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Let’s say your 5 foot 3 inches tall and you decide to join the U. S. Marine Corps, what do you think you are going to learn about leadership? Now add to that you are female in the…

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  23. Sales Skills of the Successful Sales Professional – Alex Dripchak

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard The fact is we are all sales people at some point if not most point in our lives. But then there are those people who have made sales their career. It is a profession. But let’s be...

  24. Leadership Lessons from a US Army General – Maj Gen John Gronski (ret’d)

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard When it comes to leadership who better than a U.S. Army general is more qualified to talk about it. When you have led thousands of men and women in the midst of brutal, volatile, and...

  25. Rebel Leadership: How to Thrive in Uncertain Times – Larry Robertson

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard When we think about leadership we typically think of a single person. Some sort of top performer that leads a group of people. However, what if is there is another way to look at it?...

  26. Leading Others Successfully – The Leadership Core – Will Schirmer

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Everyone wants to be the one leading the charge, but no one wants the real responsibility that comes with it. Leading others sounds great until you realize it is more than a title....

  27. Alignment, Mission, Leadership and Success – Art Johnson – The Art of Alignment

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Can you quote your company’s mission statement perfectly? Are you a leader in your company and can you quote the mission with 100% accuracy? If you cannot well then, “Houston we have a...

  28. Leadership Lessons from the Pub – Dr. Irvine Nugent

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard If you were raised in Northern Ireland a part of your culture is the pub. If you are Irvine Nugent your dad owned the pub and you were raised as part of a sub-culture. For the Irish…

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  29. Leadership for Greatness: Lessons from John Wooden – Lynn Guerin

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard John Wooden was the greatest college basketball coach of all time. He won 10 National Championships and 4 undefeated seasons while at UCLA. Some have even said, that John Wooden was…

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  30. What the Heck is Leadership – Why Should You Care – Dr. Gary DePaul

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard There are so many theories on Leadership it can get quite exhausting. In fact Leadership theory is wide and so vast you may find yourself throwing your arms up in the air and saying,...

  31. Lead and Discover Your Purpose from Your Job – Dr. Michael Colburn

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Are you leading from your current job? Why not? Have you discovered what you are purpose in your current job? What? Why? Are you thinking to yourself well I am just a (fill in the...

  32. Re-motivation of the De-motivated Employee – Drs. Cathy Bush & Tara Peters

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Often as a executive coach I am asked the question, “How do I improve employee motivation?” or “How do I motivate this employee?”. In fact, it is really the wrong question, because…

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  33. Next Level Leadership – Innovative Leaders Guide -Maureen Metcalf

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard The easiest thing for us to do as leaders is rely on what worked in the past. But let’s be honest there is not guarantee what we have done in the past will produce success in the…

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  34. Challenging Leadership: Choose Love Not Fear – Gary Heil

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Are you someone in leadership? Well the truth is we all are leaders in some way. So much has been written about leadership. How to be a good leader. How to be a more effective leader.…

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  35. Choosing Discomfort for Leadership & Success – Green Beret Jason Van Camp

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard When it comes to Special Operating Forces there is a phrase commonly used, “embrace the suck”. The idea that you are in the midst of horrible circumstances you have to decide if you…

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  36. Leading The Demotivated Employee – Dr. Tara Peters

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard How many times have I been asked, “how can I motivate my people”? It is question that is asked of every coach. As a coach we typically do not give an answer because we know you are not...

  37. Be a Better Leader and Transform Your Business – Maureen Metcalf

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Change is inevitable, but in today’s world change comes at us at an accelerated pace. This means that businesses and organizations must be able to transform. How does a business do…

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  38. The Leadership Killer – Captain John Havlik (US Navy SEALs retired)

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard So often we point fingers at leaders for their problems. We will look so intently at the things we do not like about a particular leader and in the process we neglect to realize we…

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  39. Eliminate Fear – Fearless Leadership – Alan Weiss

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Fear. So often we do not want to admit it. But as long as we are human we will fear. But what about fear when it comes to leadership? Can a leader afford to be afraid? A leader may…

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  40. People Over Process: Leadership for Agility – Michael K. Levine

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Agile is a process that allows teams to basically work independently on small pieces of a larger project. Basically they govern themselves, work in spurts (called sprints) and are...

  41. 7 Principles to Change Your Business and Your Life: Conscious Leadership – Michael Bianco-Splann

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Yesterday is not today…well that’s obvious. So why do we believe that so many of yesterday’s leadership principles will still be effective today? The fact is when it comes to work...

  42. Change Your Questions, Change Your Life, Business, and Coaching – Dr. Marilee Adams

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Have you ever been around someone you are trying to avoid? Or maybe it is someone that you feel like you just cannot get along with? Maybe you believe there is someone out to get your...

  43. How Your Business Can Compete in a Digital Age – The Relationship Economy – John DiJulius

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard Technology, social media, phone apps, Alexa, Siri, Go Google, Artificial Intelligence, there is so much coming at us. When it comes to our business…what do we do? Which one or ones do…

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  44. Take Control of Your Life – Master Your Code – Darren J. Gold

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard How many times have you either said, or heard it said, “People don’t change”. Maybe you have made the statement or heard the statement, “I am what I am”, indicating that change is...

  45. Avoid Disasters in Business and Life – Never Go with Your Gut – Gleb Tsipursky

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard We like to think of ourselves as being pretty smart. We like to think that we make really good decisions. We like to think especially in business environments that we use our logical...

  46. Lead, Succeed, and Thrive in a 24/7 World – Slow Down to Speed Up – Dr. Liz Bywater

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard So you are a leader. Maybe you are a team leader, or perhaps an owner, a manager, or maybe you are an entrepreneur and you are your own boss. The fact is you are doing the best you can...

  47. Practical Secrets for Leadership and Success: LEVEL UP! – Royce Gomez

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard When we talk about leadership it seems it is invariably linked with success. When you start to consider what it takes to truly be a great leader…well…success is right there. But the...

  48. Creating Positive Change – Start with Your People – Brian Dixon

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard We can look in our business, our relationships, our careers, our lives in general and say, “things need to change”. None of us want that change to be for the worse, so we try to take...

  49. Actualized Leadership: Meeting Your Shadow & Maximizing Your Potential – William Sparks PhD

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard I find when it comes to the word “leadership” our eyes and ears tend to perk up. Most all of us at some point in our life is going to “lead” someone, even if that is only ourselves....

  50. Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams – Omar L. Harris

    Find your leadership blind spot: take the free 3-minute Leadership Blind Spot Scorecard at jayizso.com/scorecard It doesn’t matter if it is a sport, a for profit business, a non-profit business, or even a family when it comes to developing a “high performance team” there seems to be some...

About this show

A New Direction is a weekly podcast that interviews best selling authors from around the world in success and leadership to enhance your life, career, and business.

Hosted by

Jay Izso

Frequently asked questions

How many episodes does Leadership – Jay Izso have?

Leadership – Jay Izso has 50 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on September 10, 2026.

What is Leadership – Jay Izso about?

A New Direction is a weekly podcast that interviews best selling authors from around the world in success and leadership to enhance your life, career, and business.

How often does Leadership – Jay Izso release new episodes?

Leadership – Jay Izso publishes about every 55 days, based on its 50 episodes since May 2019.

Who hosts Leadership – Jay Izso?

Leadership – Jay Izso is created and hosted by Jay Izso.
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